Neither. I explained my/our rationale above. Your disinformation is making people unsafe.
Signal does not leak your phone number to anyone. You/they are just ignorant as to how the service works. Signal will notify you if someone YOU HAVE IN YOUR CONTACTS joins the network. It will not give you any of their personal information. Their ID will show up as whatever is already in your contacts.
When you install Signal, it asks for access to your contacts, and says very proudly, “we don’t upload your contacts, it all stays on your phone.”
And then it spams all of your contacts who have Signal installed, without asking your first.
And it shares your phone number with everyone in your contacts who has Signal installed.
And then when you scream ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME and delete your account and purge the app, guess what? All those people running Signal still have your phone number displayed for them right there in plain text. Deleting your account does not delete the information that the app shared without your permission.
So yeah. Real nice “privacy” app you’ve got there.
I’m going back to Facebook Messenger, where at least the privacy failings are obvious.
But I’m more concerned about the security state angle.
…who are you trying to fool? It’s there for everyone to see…?
But since you brought it up:
As I already stated, this is incorrect. It’s not how it works. And after publishing such obviously incorrect information, I wouldn’t trust anything they said.
Trolling or ignorant. Or a secret third thing.
JWZ has had to go through the same kinds of circular conversations.
I find it fascinating that these people show up in every thread about Signal, and they just spam the same nonsense.
I like to think that it’s usually just because they’re socially invested in it.
It does very much feel like a cult.
Neither. I explained my/our rationale above. Your disinformation is making people unsafe.
Signal does not leak your phone number to anyone. You/they are just ignorant as to how the service works. Signal will notify you if someone YOU HAVE IN YOUR CONTACTS joins the network. It will not give you any of their personal information. Their ID will show up as whatever is already in your contacts.
How much personal information Signal does or does not reveal to other Signal users is not relevant to this conversation.
Then why did you bring it into the conversation?
I didn’t.
This conversation is about the the US security state. It’s about the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.
LOL you did. The title of the link you shared is “signal leaks your phone number to everyone in your contacts”.
I didn’t say that. You must be confusing me with someone else in this thread. But since you brought it up: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-number-to-everyone-in-your-contacts/
But I’m more concerned about the security state angle.
Edit to add: I see, yes, one of the links I posted did say that, which I highlighted above. But again I’m more interested in the fact that Signal is a product of Radio Free Asia, which is a US security state outfit. https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia-cuts-funding
…who are you trying to fool? It’s there for everyone to see…?
As I already stated, this is incorrect. It’s not how it works. And after publishing such obviously incorrect information, I wouldn’t trust anything they said.
If you’re going to continue denying our lived experiences with Signal, why should we allow you continue commenting on our Lemmy instance?